"I will explain myself."
"Do so."
"It is not admissible that you have come to make such a proposal for my sake, or that of the cause I serve."
"Perhaps not."
"Let us deal frankly. Whatever your character may be, you have a manner of looking at things which renders you perfectly indifferent to the chances, good or bad, of the struggle going on at this moment in this unhappy country."
"You are quite correct."
"Am I not? You care little whether Texas be free or in slavery?"
"I admit it."
"You have, then, a reason for acting as you are now doing?"
"A man always has a reason."